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Topic Lesson 19: //**Darnell Rock Reporting**//

Common Core Standards RL5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a peom reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. RL5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. W5.1a-d Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will summarize a text. 2. Students will write a personal, persuasive narrative.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts
 * __ Speak Up and Get Along! __ by Scott Cooper
 * __ In My Hands, __ by Irene Opdyke
 * __ The Giving Tree, __ by Shel Silverstein
 * __ The Cats in Krasinski Square, __ by Karen Hesse
 * __ Random Acts of Kindness, __ by Conari Press

Resource Links
 * [|www.buzzle.com/articles/debate-topics-for-kids.html/]
 * [|www.the-best-childrens-books.org/teaching-service.html]

Activities
 * ** Your Turn **, Student Book, page 493. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "Use and Reuse" or "Powers of Persuasion."

Assessments

1. Practice Book, pages 217-218 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T273 and R18 3. Weekly Test 19.4-19.5

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